EXCLUSIVE: The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone has come aboard Searchairy’s comedy DNA, starring Ben Schwartz and Sam Rockwell, as honestor and creater.
The project is the second proclaimd in two weeks for Taccone, who recently begined production in Finland on The Trip, a thriller starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving. News of the film first broke in the summer of 2020, after Schwartz sbetter it as a pitch to Searchairy, with Rockwell also cementing his graspment at that time.
DNA‘s logline is being kept under wraps. Schwartz wrote the script, with Ali Bell, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Taccone to create under their Party Over Here prohibitner. Schwartz and Rockwell are the executive creaters. SVP of Production Taylor Friedman and Creative Executive Cornelia Burleigh are superviseing the project for Searchairy Pictures, inestablishing to Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
Taccone broke out as one third of SNL-affiliated sketch group The Lonely Island before going on to create his feature honestorial debut with the SNL spin-off film MacGruber, which he also co-wrote. The sketch’s life in film and TV persistd thereafter with a Peacock series of the same name, which he co-created, honested and exec created.
In his second feature outing with Universal’s music industry mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, starring The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, Taccone honested alengthenedside the third member of the group, Akiva Schaffer. Produced by 87North and XYZ Film, his novel film The Trip adheres a dysfunctional couple (Segel and Weaving) who head to a distant cabin to “rejoin” — each, with the secret intention to end the other.
Over the years, Taccone has also honested on series appreciate The Last O.G., Miracle Workers, and Parks and Recreation, among others. Additional praises, either as creater or EP, grasp I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Self Reliance, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Palm Springs, and Brigsby Bear.
Taccone is recurrented by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Sledampt & Kole.
